Beijing – Baotou railway line

Beijing-Baotou
Route length:	833 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend to Jingha , to Jinghu , to Jingcheng and Fengsha 0 Beijing North Railway Station 4th Qinghuayuan 11 Qinghe 21st Shahe to the Fengsha route 31 Changping to the Beijing – Tongliao railway line 40 Nankou Dongyuan Juyongguan Sanbao Qinglongqiao , Qinglongqiao West Badaling tunnel Badaling Xibozi 70 Kangzhuang Hebei Donghuayuan Datong – Qinhuangdao Railway Beijing – Lhasa highway to the Fengsha route 105 Shacheng 114 Xinbao'an 122 Xibali 130 Xiahuayuan 143 Xinzhuangzi Xuanhua – Datong Highway 160 Xuanhua 175 Shalingzi 185 Zhangjiakou -South 195 Zhangjiakou Tongqiao He Wanquan 225 Guoleizhuang Dongyang He Xiyang He 239 Chaiguobu 253 Xiwanbao Shanxi 269 Yongjiabao Xiaoxiabao 287 Tianzhen 301 Luowenzao 316 Yanggao 357 Zhoushizhuang to the Datong – Qinhuangdao Railway 368 Datong East to the Datong – Jungar railway line 321 Datong to Daqin and Tongpu Eren Hot – Guangzhou Highway 334 Guashan 352 Buziwan Inner Mongolia 366 Fengzhen to the Datong – Jungar railway line 382 Xin'anzhuang 402 Hongshaba 417 Togrog ul 433 Suji 448 Jining - South to the Jining – Erenhot railway line Hulu 455 Basumu 480 Maghetu 488 Gujiabao 494 Zhuozishan 508 Fushengzhuang 523 Sandaoying 536 Qixiaying 547 Minzu 555 Tobq 586 Hohhot Taigemu Bikeqi 637 Qasq Taosihao Sanbusu Meidaizhao 809 Salaqi Gongjiban Dongxing Guchengwan Wanshuiquan 853 Baotou -East to the Baotou – Shiguai railway line to the Baotou – Shenmu railway line 869 Baotou to the Baotou – Lanzhou railway line

The Beijing – Baotou railway , also known as the Jingbao Railway ( Chinese 京 包 铁路 ), is an 833 km long railway line from Beijing to Baotou in Inner Mongolia .

The first section of the line to Zhangjiakou (Kalgan) was built in 1905–1909 by the Chinese engineer Jeme Tien Yow as the Imperial Beijing – Kalgan Railway . At the same time, after several railway lines already built by foreign companies in China, this was the first railway line built by the Chinese government itself . He overcame the steep incline at Badaling with a hairpin . In 1921 the line reached Hohhot and in 1923 Baotou.

Traffic in Qinglongqiao (1908)

Diesel and steam locomotive in Badaling (1979)

Diesel multiple unit type NDJ3 in Badaling (2012)

Even with the hairpin, the gradient near Qinglongqiao station is 33 ‰. Therefore, in the 1950s, the Fengsha Railway was built along the Yongding He as a bypass route. Until the 1990s, the old line was used for passenger traffic and the Fengsha railway for goods traffic (especially coal).

See also

• Rail transport in China

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} F. C. Coleman: The Peking-Kalgan Railway . In: Scientific American . tape 105 , no. 19 , p. 409-411 , doi : 10.1038 / scientificamerican11041911-409 .
2. ↑ RAILWAYS WITH ZIG ZAGS WORLDWIDE : "The gradient was mostly 1 in 40, with occasional sections of 1 in 30"
3. ↑ Fengsha Railway ( Memento of February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , Shared Encyclopedia (translation from Chinese)